• View of the White House's north side from Layfatte Park

    President's Park (White House)

    District of Columbia

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  • White House Tours canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013

    We regret to inform you that White House Tours are canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013, until further notice. For updates regarding this situation, please contact the White House Visitors Office 24 hour hotline at (202) 456-7041.

  • White House Visitor Center Rehabilitation and Closure Information

    The White House Visitor Center is closed for rehabilitation. A temporary visitor center is located near the Ellipse Visitor Pavilion, just west of the intersection of 15th and E streets, NW.

Post Office

post office

Post Office - Benjamin Franklin
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
202-635-5300 or 1-800-275-8777
M-F 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Directions: Go east on Pennsylvania Avenue to 12th Street, two blocks from the White House Visitor Center.

Did You Know?

Andrew Jackson, 7th President: 1829-1837

In Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, President Andrew Jackson boards a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train for a pleasure trip to Baltimore in 1833. Jackson, who had never been on a train before, was the first president to take a ride on the "Iron Horse," as locomotives were known then.